Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1887-08-06
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a Bumorists rvoubles Upon Returning From
ssJourn In the saountsins.
Burdette In the Brooklyn Eagle.
1t 10 indeed pleasant TO settle down to
housekeeping again after few years OF life In
every sort OF . hosiery, from an open face
camp In the Adirondacks to . New York
hotel. There are 10 many surprises in store
for one, when one takes one Lsres and Pen
stes, with all the appurtenances thereunto
appertaining, from the dark solitude of the
gloomy storeroom in which they have passed
. few years in sentiment and reflection.
You think OF 30 many more things than you
say, - you unpack the barrels OF ham.
msred china and crsckle ware. All our china
10 real hammered, aud all our crystal Is the
genuine crsckle Some OF our fragile ware /
hammered my self, some the truckman ham
mered, and some was hammered when the
cask fell down the elevator we'll at the store
room. am fair to middling light weight
packer, but am not genius Consequently,
1t never occurred to me when packed bale
OF pressed hay around one tumbler to pack
againnt the contingency of fall of six stories.
But then, / never stored before, and l knew
not the ways OF the storage warehouse. do
now. II ever l store agsin-but-excuse
these teara l have now nothing to store
Nothing save only one stove leg. And 1t
doesn't belong To me. 1t got mixed up with
my things In the warehouse. But 1t IL whole;
hssnt crack or ilsw in It. and 10 will keep
it have NO earthly use for 1t, but 1t does
my soul good to see something whole about
the new house besides the ones l made In
the wall hunting for hidden scsntling with
. hammer and 2 picture nail ! found
scantling onca PrObed for 1t with q gimlet
until got hold Of It Then l went into the
next room for . hammer aud . picture nail.
When ] came back, II somebody hadn't
moved the scantling, / am Q hssthen from
ling all around the house 30 drove the
nail into the lsth and hung the picture. !
sm now one picture short in that room, but
! pisstered the hole In the wall 30 neatly,
you can't see where II happened.
SO many little things turn up as you un.
cover your long hidden treasures l hear
my sister weeping In the next room over one
them now. She brings her pitsous face into
my lair and ssys, in tone OF woman who
| il sweary of lie, 81 have found another
moth" l say Why you found six yester-
day what do you want with another? the
goes away wringing her hsnds ! suppose
| she found this one to bring the count up Ia
the perfect number. Why do women-GOd
don't want to find?
Only the other day while l was writing
an "Ode to Washington" and was trying 10
think OF rhyme for hstchst, abe called me
| down staira She aaid 81 believe there II
something alive In that barrel" ! said II
my native language, which always cOmas
| back to me In moments OF anger. "A.w.w.w?'
The idiom is untrsnslatsble. Only men wht
/ nave ue0O IL KNOW Wnht IL uoaus ; /" di
others 1t 10 the unknowsble. stood on my
head in that barrel to grasp at the straw sDC
| crush her idle fears, and may l never see thu
psnitentisry, II . procession OF starving mice
didn't stsm pede up my back and jump OIL my
waving lega did not come out OF that bar
rel 20 hastily q you might suppose. My In
| tentiOn was 70 come out rather abruptly, bu
| checked It nail . foot long, which raj
into my back eighteen inches, helped me
| pause. They had 70 knock the other head q
i ha hal in md lofp mo-
| l sm now teetOtaller, but ] had = nail tins
, day that for stay ing qualities, beat any ''nes
! licksr' that ever introduced fallen man
, | the james Jsmbs